how-to.md
Moving your mailbox to Google
Your email is moving from Yandex to Google Workspace. To copy your old emails, we need a Yandex app password.
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- 01Turn on IMAP in Yandex Mail
Open Mail settings → Email clients. Tick From the imap.yandex.com server via IMAP and choose App passwords and OAuth tokens. Save. - 02Create an app password
Open Yandex ID → Security → App passwords, choose Mail, name it Google migration and create it. - 03Copy the 16-letter password
It looks like abcd efgh ijkl mnop. Yandex shows it only once, so paste it here right away. - 04Submit the form
We log in to Yandex with it on the spot. That confirms the password is right and IMAP is on. You also see if we already have one for you.
$ node migrate --from yandex --to google ✔ your normal password stays private ✔ app password encrypted on our server
Share your app password
Takes under a minute. Questions? Contact websupport@squareyards.com.